A dream is a wish a heart makes....Cinderella

 These are the dreams of my little ones. I don't doubt for one minute that they will reach their goals and exceed them too. The question was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" The answers make me smile.

Earth Day Activities and preparing for our mother's day!

 We made our Earth Day buddies and learned about recycling, reusing and reducing. We read Michael Recycle and learned a new song.

 My kids are so sweet and adorable.

 They discover when we are outside. Everything is a wonder.

 Part of being an author of a book is reading many stories. As we prepare to write our Mother's Day books we practice thinking about all the wonderful things that our moms do for us.

 Our mommie's will love their books that the kids made.

 Can we go outside already?

 Friday is for reading one-on-one. Each student picks a book and I get to read the story to them personally. Sometimes they like a story to be read to them more than one Friday. It's not about teaching them to read, but making them lifelong readers.

They love selfies!

Pre-Easter and Pre-Testing

 Guess what we will do today? Yes, we will be dyeing eggs. The kids are so excited!

 But before we start that dyeing we will count and sort jelly beans.

 Everyone had their own way of organizing the jelly beans.

 Alfred really likes straight lines.

 Ethan likes groups.

 We also graphed the jelly beans to better see which colors we had the most and the least of.

 Then the dyeing began! Not too much of a mess. It was fun and they loved mixing the colors.

 Every egg was unique.

 And everyone was proud and happy that each one was different.

 Then the Easter Bunny came to say hello. Some of the kids did not want to get too near the bunny.

 Now we start preparing for testing. We practice how to concentrate for a long time and we put our blinders up to help with the concentration. We can't get up and we have to be very quiet if you finish the test early. We always try our best! Of course we check the practice test together as a class and discuss what the best answer is and how to bubble in.